Lacticum Acidum

Lacticum Acidum.

Lactic Acid.

Milk Acid.

HC 3 H 5 O 3.

Dilution.

Clinical

Bones, swelling of.

Diabetes.

Foot-sweat.

Indigestion.

Pregnancy, sickness of.

Rheumatism.

Sciatica.

Throat, constricted, sore.

Vomiting.

Characteristics

Lactic acid "was discovered by Scheele in sour milk, the result of the spontaneous fermentation of sugar of milk, under the influence of casein.

It is also met with in many vegetable products which have turned sour" (Hering).

Reisig introduced it into homoeopathy. It has been proved in both the lower and higher attenuations, but many valuable observations have been made on patients taking substantial doses for diabetes (C. D. P. ).

In these cases the symptoms of rheumatic fever were directly traced to the acid. Pain, swelling, and stiffness and tenderness of joints < by motion (as with Bry. , which antidotes Lact. ac. ), and flying pains about limbs. One prover had pain along the right sciatic nerve.

The well-known effects of milk that has soured on the stomach and remained undigested were produced — nausea, vomiting, burning and sense of weight ; and these have all proved useful indications in the homoeopathic use of the drug.

Diabetes is the affection for which it has been most given in old-school practice ; but it has also proved of great power in this affection in the homoeopathic attenuations.

Nash regards the concomitance of rheumatic pains as the chief guiding symptom here. (In Med. Adv. , XXI. 508 he records a case of diabetes, with rheumatic fever supervening, cured with Lact. ac. 200. )

But nausea is no less a guide : Constant nausea ; nausea on awaking before rising ; > by eating. This may occur in diabetes ; or it may occur in pregnancy. It is also an indication when occurring in rheumatism.

There is > by eructations ; and < by smoking. Smoking < eructations. Copious foot-sweat is a feature of Lact. ac. , but it is not offensive. It is suited to anaemic, pale women. Large doses disagreed with melancholic, choleric constitution, dark hair and eyes.

Relations (Lacticum Acidum.)

Antidoted by : Bry. (relieved sharp pains upper third right side, but soreness remained).

Compatible : Meat diet in diabetes.

Incompatible : Coffee < symptoms.

Lac can. , Lac coag. , Lac defl. , Sac. lac.

In nausea of pregnancy, Nux, Puls. , Ph. ac. , Colch. , Lyc. , Lac d. , Ip.

Excessive hawking with (or without) nausea, Caust. (phlegm in throat, cannot be hawked up, causing nausea).

Diabetes, Pho. ac. , Acet. ac. , Lac d. , Ur. Nit.

Flying rheumatism, Puls. , Rhus.

Great discouragement, Pso.

Compare also : Vegetable acids, which all cause weakness and thinness of the blood.

Symptoms (Lacticum Acidum.)

Mind (Lacticum Acidum.)

Great discouragement.

Lazy.

Memory lost.

Sarcastic.

Head (Lacticum Acidum.)

Congestion of head ; painless, with strong pulsation of vessels of neck.

Dull pain in forehead, just over eyes, and extending into eyes.

Headache, with sensation of fullness in vertex.

Pain in head and back all night.

Pain in occiput, and alternating between there and forehead.

Vertigo : when turning head suddenly ; with heat, on rising ; on stooping ; at night.

Eyes (Lacticum Acidum.)

Eyes feel as if they would burst.

Hyperaesthesia of retina, steady aching in and behind eyeball.

Jerking of left upper lid.

Marked protrusion of eyes ; pupils dilated ; eyes feels tired.

Photophobia.

Sensation of fullness in eyes, with headache.

Ears (Lacticum Acidum.)

Disturbed and troubled by noise.

Pain from parotids into ear ; stiff feeling in parotids.

Roaring in left ear on rising in afternoon ; singing, snapping in left ear.

Nose (Lacticum Acidum.)

Great sensitiveness of smell.

Nose-bleed every morning.

Severe coryza, stopped nose, sneezing, thick mucus from head to throat, yellow ; dead sweet taste.

Face (Lacticum Acidum.)

Face flushed or congested from headache.

Mouth (Lacticum Acidum)

Bad taste in mouth : acrid, with nausea ; sour ; coppery.

Copious salivation (pregnancy).

Mouth and fauces very dry and hot.

Much saliva in mouth, tasting salty.

Tongue coated thick white.

Tongue sore on left side, raw and red ; dry, parched, sticky.

Very sore mouth ; canker sores.

Yellow coating on tongue, with bad taste in morning.

Throat (Lacticum Acidum.)

Difficulty of swallowing solids ; less in swallowing liquids.

Excessive hawking with or without nausea.

Fauces hot, dry and swollen.

Fulness in throat which keeps him swallowing frothy mucus ; lump or fullness feels like a small puffball ; not > by swallowing.

Intense burning in throat, fauces, and oesophagus < by eructation.

Sensation of a plug in the throat.

Sense of constriction low down in throat ; rough and dry.

Stomach (Lacticum Acidum.)

Appetite impaired.

Burning and weight in stomach.

Constant nausea ; persisting for days.

Eructations of burning, hot gas from stomach, causing a profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, which must be constantly hawked up ; < by smoking tobacco.

Eructations of hot, acrid fluid, which burns from stomach to throat.

Food sours.

Nausea after breakfast ; not severe, but very persistent.

Nausea on rising in morning.

Nausea with waterbrash or vomiting.

Sensation as if all food were lodged under upper end of sternum, which oppresses and distresses her for hours.

Voracious appetite and great thirst.

Stool and Anus (Lacticum Acidum.)

Aching pain in anus.

Greenish yellow stools with tenesmus.

Soft, mushy stool ; diarrhoea.

Very costive, stool once a week, hard, black.

Urinary Organs (Lacticum Acidum.)

Frequent desire to urinate large quantities.

Frequent pain in kidneys.

Urinates frequently day and night ; the attempt to retain it causes pain.

Male Sexual Organs (Lacticum Acidum.)

Annoying erections in morning, but loins ache too much to attempt coition.

Seminal emissions three successive nights.

Female Sexual Organs (Lacticum Acidum.)

Aching pain in region of right ovary, < by rapid walking or exercise.

During pregnancy : morning sickness ; salivation ; nausea and vomiting ; waterbrash > by breakfast.

Heaviness and dragging down as if womb down.

Leucorrhoea ; staining linen yellow ; when checked nasal catarrh ensues.

Menses : scanty ; seventeen days late ; two days early ; more profuse than usual ; pain in small of back and lower abdomen ; itching of vulva during flow.

Pain as if menstruating ; sitting with feet high > uterine soreness.

Respiratory Organs (Lacticum Acidum.)

After rising, voice was entirely without control, whispering and squeaking when expecting to speak aloud.

Aphonia.

Cutting or sticking pain in upper third of right side.

Dryness and rawness, extending to larynx.

Hoarse, hard, dry cough, with dryness of glottis.

Hoarseness.

Left side of chest sore and painful.

Spasmodic, ringing cough, caused by irritation in throat.

Neck and Back (Lacticum Acidum.)

Pain in small of back, extending into shoulders.

Sore aching in lower part of back ; < when walking.

Limbs (Lacticum Acidum.)

Acute pains in joints ; flying pains about limbs.

All pains < by movement.

Joints swollen, not tender, stiff.

Severe, sharp pains in joints.

Upper Limbs (Lacticum Acidum.)

Rheumatic pain in shoulders.

Rheumatic swelling with redness and pain in wrists and elbows, wrists, and small joints of hands.

Lower Limbs (Lacticum Acidum.)

Knees and other joints stiff and painful.

Rheumatic pain in knee-joints.

Sharp pain in right knee with stiffness.

Soreness to touch along right sciatic nerve, on getting out of bed, lasting all day and pulsating constantly but slightly.

Generalities (Lacticum Acidum.)

Aversion to exercise.

Debility, weariness of the limbs.

Weakness as if from exercise, with rheumatic pains in the bones.

Skin (Lacticum Acidum.)

Itching and burning, < by cold.

Red spots or blotches on various parts of the body, particularly thighs and lower extremities.

Skin harsh and dry, no sweat.

Sleep (Lacticum Acidum.)

Does not sleep well.

Restless all night.

Fever (Lacticum Acidum.)

Chilly, mostly on limbs.

Cold and chilly at times.

Copious perspiration.

Flashes of heat.

Unusual perspiration of feet.